Toy folding bed.



No. 788,189. PATENTED SEPT.8,1903.

. A. 0. HEALY. TOY FOLDING BED.

APPLICATION FILED 'JAN.'31, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 8, 1903.

ARCHER C. HEALY, OF NORWVOOD, NEl/V YORK.

TOY FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 738,189, dated September 8, 1903.

Application filed January 3], 1902. Serial No. 92,082. (No modell) '10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHER C. HEALY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwood, and doing business at 387 Broadway, New York, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Article of Manufacture and a Toy Folding Bed, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, wherein- Figure 1 represents a perspective of the bed-frame; Fig. 2, a side view of the foot and part of the side bars; Fig. 3, a perspective, partially broken away, showing the method of bending the head and foot braces; Fig. 4,v

a side View of the bed folded; Fig. 5, a modification of mydevice, partially broken away, wherein the head and foot braces are carried on the pivoted side bar; and Fig. 6, a perspective of the same, partially broken away.

The object of this invention is to produce a toy folding bed practically in one piece and capable of folding into a flat package for shipment and at the same time of maximum strength and durability, which is a desirable feature in all toys.

Heretofore toy beds, as a general rule, have been made in several pieces and were joined together very much in the same manner as full-sized beds; but, as is well known, to assemble the parts was usually beyond the mind of the ordinary child, and when taken down one missing part rendered the whole inoperative. I have therefore joined the head and foot pieces by a side bar, upon which both hinge or pivot, and have arranged wedgeshaped braces and stops thereon to hold the head and foot in position when the bed is set up. The springs may be wired to the side bars in any convenient manner. hen the bed is folded, the head and foot pieces lie fiat upon the springs or side bars, permitting of a flat package. To obtain maximum strength in my constructioml prefer to use iron or steel wire.

To more particularly describe myinvention by referring to the accompanying drawings, n represents the outside or contour wire of the head-piece; c a, cross-braces. Between the cross-brace a and the contour-wire any spiral design or bent-wire design can be in serted, the drawing showing two braces. The foot or tail piece is arranged in the same manner, the contour-wire being lettered Z? and the cross-braces b b. The side rods or bars are preferably formed of two wires 0 d, held together by clips 6, the wire 0 being designed to bend around the head and foot cross-braces a b" to form a loop or hinge upon which these pivot and also to carry an angular projection c to form a brace or rest for the head and foot pieces when the bed is set up. The wire 61 is designed to carry a Wedge-shaped projection 61, that pivot-s on the wire 0. This projection rides upon the head and tail cross-braces a b and forces the head and tail contour-wires against the projection 0, thereby holding the bed in position. This wedge is restrained in its pivotal motion by the ties of the cross-braces a b. I have found it convenient in some cases to construct both the wedge and brace on the bar (Z by forming one turn around the wire 0, as at d, and continuing it down to form the angular projection c of the first device.

The operation of,the device is very simple. To upset, turn down the wedges d and the head and foot will fall upon the frame or the springs. To set up, turn up the head and foot and then turn up the wedges d until they abut against the tie on the cross-braces a Z).

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, atoy folding bed consisting of head and tail pieces, in combination with side bars, one portion of which forms a hinge and stop for said pieces and another portion, oscillating on the first, provided with angular projections at either end acting as wedging devices to maintain the said pieces upright against the stop of the first, substantially as set forth.

ARCHER O. HEALY. Witnesses:

WILLIS J. FLETCHER, GEORGE HARRIS. 

